Profiles
WINDRUSH LINE HERITAGE TOURS
SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2025
from 11am to 12.45pm | from 1.30pm to 3:15pm
OBITUARY | Donald (Don) Henry Cremer
Born 8th May 1929 – died 1st January 2025
WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING
Sam King MBE (1926 – 2016) was one of 492 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury Docks on Empire Windrush in 1948 and went on to be an inspiration to many
Norma Best
In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance …
Harold Sinson
Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939 …
Arthur Curling
In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers …
Cy Grant
Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years …
Euton Christian
Euton was born in Jamaica and volunteered to fight for Britain in 1944, at the …
Dudley Anderson
Dudley Anderson was born in Jamaica in 1925, and like many other young men in …
Al Gibson
Al was born in Cuba 1925, but grew up in Jamaica. He volunteered for service …
Nurvin McKoy
Nurvin was born in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize) in 1926 …
Arthur Leigh
Arthur was 22 years old when he answered the call from the Royal Air Force to volunteer…
Lauren Phillpotts
Laurent Phillpotts was born in Jamaica in 1923. He had been a trainee linotype…
Connie Mark
Born and brought up in Kingston with her sister, mother and father, Connie Mark (nee McDonald) was …
George McPherson
George was 15 years old when his ex-serviceman friend Barry returned home and told …
Alford Gardner
Alford Gardner was born in 1926 in Jamaica. Before volunteering in 1947 for service the…
Nick Collins
Rudolph (Nick) Collins was nearly 17 years old when his brother’s best friend told him about life…
Steve Mitchell
Veron (Steve) Mitchell volunteered in 1944 to join the Royal Air Force. He was 19 years old and…
Maurice Hudson
Born in Cuba in 1919, Maurice spent his early years there at a time when schooling for Black children was rear…
Cecil Holness
Cecil Holness was born in Jamaica, and at the age of 22, volunteered to fight for Britain…
Tom Douce
Tom Douce was born in Jamaica. At the age of twenty two…
Allan Wilmot
Alan was born in Jamaica in 1925. After leaving college in 1941, he volunteered…